Cambridge University Botanic Garden will celebrate 40th birthday in 2019

In 1979, Cambridge University Botanic Garden was the first botanic garden in the UK to dedicate an area solely to plants offering ornamental winter interest. In 2019 we celebrate the 40th birthday of our Winter Garden – a vibrant, colourful and fragrant space of brightly coloured stems, winter flowering shrubs,

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Bowood House, Wiltshire

PGG Southern area visit to Bowood House and Gardens in Wiltshire. Bowood House itself is set in the middle of Capability’ Brown’s grade 1 park. The upper terrace was designed by Sir Robert Smirk in 1818, the lower terrace by George Kennedy in 1851.

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Events now booking for 2015

Events now booking for 2015

Following an extremely interesting and varied events schedule this year, your area Organisers have been busy planning more visits and events for 2015. Some of these are now open for booking so please have a look at the Events page and remember that places do fill up very quickly. If there’s a location you don’t want to miss you can book it now!

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Minterne House gardens and Sherborne Castle, Dorset

Professional Gardeners’ Guild Southern Area visit to Minterne House and gardens and Sherborne Castle, Dorset. The Minterne Valley was landscaped in the manner of Capability Brown in the 18th Century. Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown created the lake at Sherborne Castle in 1753, giving Sherborne the very latest in landscape gardening.

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Mark your diaries for next summer!

The Cotswolds provide the backdrop for the Guilds Main Summer Meeting when we visit two spectacular gardens each with a very different style. This combined with a two course lunch at the picturesque Seven Tuns Inn at Chedworth makes for a very interesting and worthwhile meeting. Stowell Park Stowell Park

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Wrest Park, Beds visit – photos

On a glorious summer’s day on 7th September 2012, John Watkins – Head of Gardens for English Heritage – was our tour guide for our visit to Wrest Park in Bedfordshire. He has masterminded this massive restoration project at Wrest Park and was able to give us an insight into

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Castle Drogo, July ’12 – photos

Pictures of the PGG visit to Castle Drogo and Coombe Trenchard in Devon 7th July 2012. On a rather damp July day the Guild visited the beautiful gardens at Castle Drogo on the edge of the Dartmoor National Park. The formal gardens were such a contrast to the rugged scenery

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Dublin Zoo, June ’12 – photos

PGG Ireland visited Dublin Zoo on the 29th June 2012 Stephen Butler’s tour of the Zoo was as ever stimulating and entertaining. The Irish branch of the PGG was formed in the Zoo and the changes that have taken place in the intervening years are astounding. In the afternoon Stephen

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